There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
BILL CONDONBecause his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone’s sexuality is unique.
More Bill Condon Quotes
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There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years – which are the gay movement and the women’s movement – I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, ‘Dreamgirls’ has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn’t change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
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It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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But you really – I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal.
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It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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